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mbassador Judith Varnai Shorer took her case for the survival of the Israeli Consulate straight to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during her recent trip home with a delegation from Tennessee, including Gov. Bill Haslam. The new consul general to the Southeast didn’t hold back on her trademark candor when given a chance to speak to her boss — Netanyahu is serving as his own foreign minister in the new government — who is someone she has known a long time. During a visit to the offices of the Atlanta Jewish Times Wednesday, Sept. 9, Shorer made clear that she has no intention of being the last Israeli diplomat to serve in this city. She said closing the consulate in the South makes no sense. “I was shocked,” she said, when the proposed budget calling for the closure of the consulate and several other diplomatic missions was announced in August. The budget passed a first vote in the Knesset in early September but now must go through committee reviews before a final vote in November. She’s hopeful that the obvious value of the consulate will win out, but “no one knows what will happen.” ■ No Shanghai for Shorer, Page 8
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ewish Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made his first stop in Atlanta for a fundraiser Friday, Sept. 11, drawing a packed crowd of supporters to 200 Peachtree St. downtown. The Vermont senator, already leading in Democratic polls in New Hampshire, made news days before the Atlanta event by surpassing front-runner Hillary Clinton in polls in Iowa for the first time. Kids, grandparents and young adults with beards and neon-colored hair gathered in the standing-room-only space. When the clock hit 6 p.m., the advertised start time, screams and chants of “Bernie” erupted from the crowd. The senator soon took the stage, staring into the crowd and remarking, “It is hot. And it is loud,” drawing a roar. His speech stuck to the rallying cry of his campaign: income inequality. “I don’t represent corporate America. I don’t represent the billionaire class.” He addressed a variety of reforms, including the cost of college tuition and racial inequality in the criminal justice system — a notable issue after Black Lives Matter demonstrators confronted him for skirting the issue at past rallies. “There is a profound disgust in a system that allows billionaires to buy elections,” Sanders said. He later addressed the billionaires directly: “You will not continue to get huge tax breaks when children in this country go hungry.” With a focus on middle-class support, the fundraiser was open to donors of as little as $50. ■
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SUNDAY, SEPT. 20
Baseball mitzvah. The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival presents the documentary “Havana Curveball,” about an American bar mitzvah who donates baseball gear to youth players in Cuba, at 1:30 p.m. at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Tickets are $13 ($10 for JCC members); ajff.org or www.havanacurveball.info/screenings. Rabbi Kook’s impact. Rabbi Don Seeman leads a panel discussion on the work of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook to mark his 80th yahrzeit at 8 p.m. at the New Toco Shul, 2003 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Dinner is included. Free; RSVP to newtocoshul@gmail.com.
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Sukkot open house. Berman Commons, 2026 Womack Road, Dunwoody, invites the public for food and fun from 2 to 4 p.m. Free; RSVP to 678-222-7500 or info@bermancommons.org.
THURSDAY, OCT. 1
Sushi in the sukkah. Learn how to roll your own sushi while socializing with YITH Young Professionals at 8 p.m. at the sukkah at Young Israel of Toco Hills, 2056 LaVista Road. Admission is $15 in advance or $20 at the door; www. yith.org or 404-315-1417.
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Walk to fight cancer. Relay for Life of Ruach, the only American Cancer Society Relay for Life held on a Sunday, begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 8 at North Springs Charter High School, 7447 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs. Sign up at www.RelayForLife.org/ruachga.
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Sushi and scotch in the sukkah. YJP Midtown Atlanta gathers at 9 p.m. at the Schusterman sukkah, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, for sushi, scotch or other cocktails, and socializing on the first night of Sukkot. Free; www.yjpmidtownatlanta.com or 404-898-0434. Gathering your key documents. Jewish Home Life Communities presents Part 1 of “Preparing Your Top Drawer File,” a program providing information and tools to create your own file of important medical, legal and financial documents to ensure that your care preferences are followed, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Free; RSVP to 404-351-8412 or JewishHomeLife.org.
ONGOING Hollywood in the camps. “Filming the Camps — John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg” runs through Nov. 20 at the Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Road, Buckhead. Admission to the museum is $16.50 for adults, $13 for students and seniors, $11 for children 4 to 12, and free for members and younger children; www.atlantahistorycenter. com or 404-814-4000.
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History of Jewish Atlanta. The Breman Museum, 1440 Spring St., Midtown, presents “Eighteen Artifacts,” an exploration of Atlanta’s Jewish history, through Dec. 31. Admission to the museum is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 for students and educators, $4 for children 3 to 6, and free for members and younger children; thebreman.org or 678-222-3700.
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Film and friendship. Greater Atlanta Hadassah’s Ketura Group shows “Serial (Bad) Weddings” and serves dessert in Alpharetta at 7:15 p.m. The fee is $12 ($6 for prospective members); RSVP by Sept. 28 to rsvp2mffried@gmail.com or 770-442-2854.
A woman’s touch. The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s Women’s Philanthropy Division hosts Jeannie Opdyke Smith, whose Polish Catholic mother as a teenager saved Jews from the Nazis, for an event called “One Woman Can Make an Impact.” Sign in at Congregation B’nai Torah, 700 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, starts at 6:15 p.m.; dinner is at 7. Tickets are $54, available only to those who have donated at least $365 to the 2016 Community Campaign. Any increase from 2015 donation levels to get to $365 will be matched by the Helen Marie Stern Foundation. Register by Oct. 6; www.jewishatlanta.org/wpfallevent or 678-222-3702
Torah discussion. YJP Midtown Atlanta talks about learning to forgive those who hurt you most. The event at Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, includes cocktails and light snacks. Schmoozing starts at 7:30, discussion at 8:15; www.yjpmidtownatlanta.com or 404-898-0434.
Leo Frank exhibit. The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History, 2829 Cherokee St., Kennesaw, in cooperation with the Breman Museum, presents “Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited” through Nov. 29. Museum admission is $7.50 for adults, $6.50 for seniors, $5.50 for ages 4 to 12, and free for ages 3 and under and for Southern Museum and Breman members; www.southernmuseum.org.
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at 9:30, while the learners service is at 10. The children’s program is 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with the family service from noon to 12:30. Yizkor is at 1 p.m. and Mincha at 5:45.
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Parshah Vayelech Friday, Sept. 18, light candles at 7:22 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, Shabbat ends at 8:16 p.m. Arlington Yom Kippur Memorial Park at 7:17 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, light candles SanDy SPRingS Wednesday, Sept. 23, holiday ends at 8:10 p.m. Parshah Ha’Azinu 404-255-0750 ArlingtonMemorialPark.com Friday, Sept. 25, light candles at 7:12 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, Shabbat ends at 8:06 p.m. Sukkot Sunday, Sept. 27, light candles at 7:10 p.m. M1726_0437_ArlingtonMP_PNT_Comm_4-44x11-75_C.indd 1 Monday, Sept. 28, light candles after 8:03 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, yontif ends at 8:02 p.m.
Shema Yisrael Shema Yisrael: The Open Synagogue holds services open to all at Unity Church, 3597 Parkway Lane, Norcross. Bob Bahr, Eugen Schoenfeld and Cantor Herb Cole lead the services, set for 7 p.m. for Kol Nidre, then 11 a.m. Tickets are $65, and reservations are required; www.shemaweb.org. 7/27/15 11:44 AM
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Looking for a place to go for Yom Kippur? Here are some free or low-cost possibilities. All Kol Nidre services are Sept. 22, and all other services are Sept. 23. Chabad Intown Chabad Intown, 928 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta, offers three sets of free services open to all: traditional services blended with contemporary messages and led by Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman; learners services led by Rabbi Ari Sollish; and family and children’s services. Reservations are requested through atl18love.org or 404-898-0434. Kol Nidre starts at 7:15 p.m. The traditional morning service begins
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Congregation Bet Haverim Reconstructionist Congregation Bet Haverim allows free, ticketless admission at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 1790 LaVista Road, Toco Hills. Kol Nidre starts at 8 p.m. The morning service is at 10, with a meditation service at 3 p.m., Yizkor at 4:15 and Neilah at 5:30. Children’s services start at 10:15 a.m. Visit congregationbethaverim.org/HighHolidaysCentral, or call 404-315-6446. Congregation Kehillat HaShem Rabbi Jeffery Feinstein offers free services using the Reform “Gates of Repentance” mahzor at Brookdale, 1000 Applewood Drive, Roswell. Kol Nidre is at 7 p.m., and services the next day are at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., with Yizkor at approximately 4:30 p.m. and Neilah around 5. For more information, contact Rabbi Feinstein at www. rabbiatlanta.com or 770-218-8094. Ahavath Achim Synagogue Conservative AA, 600 Peachtree Battle Ave., Buckhead, offers $54 Yom Kippur tickets to nonmembers, as well as free tickets to military personnel, full-time students and Jewish professionals. Kol Nidre is at 7:15 p.m. Shacharit the next morning is at 8. Yizkor is at 12:30 p.m. and Neilah at 6:30. AAspire offers adults ages 18 to 40 tickets for $36, including a young-adult break the fast. Visit aasynagogue.org. Young Israel of Toco Hills Orthodox Young Israel of Toco Hills offers free seating in its new building at 2056 LaVista. Kol Nidre starts at 7:20 p.m. Morning services are at 8:30, with Yizkor no earlier than 11 a.m. Mincha at 5:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.yith.org,
Corrections & Clarifications
The Jewish Moms of Atlanta meetup group was founded in April 2014 by Keri Kaufmann and Fallyn Vogel, who met in a now-defunct meetup group, Jewish Intown Imas, which was founded in 2011 by Erica Udell and Nicole Wiesen. Kaufmann and Wiesen are now the co-leaders of JMOA. An article in the Sept. 11 issue omitted and confused some of the history of the two groups.
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Susan Schiffer, who chaired the dedication ceremony, told the crowd of about 200 people that the creation of the Reform congregation in 1981 was about the needs of the children, 50 of whom are now in the religious school. The first service in the 3,800-square-foot building was July 16.
■ The Weber School starts a new chapter Sunday, Sept. 18, when it breaks ground on a building at the corner of Roswell and Abernathy roads in Sandy Springs. The state-ofthe-art facility, due to open in fall 2006, will accommodate a doubling of the enrollment, something school leaders see as feasible once the Jewish high school has a permanent home.
■ Lauren and Joel Shapiro of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Stephanie Barth, on May 4, 1990. Rabbi Arnold Goodman officiated at the naming ceremony.
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■ Rabbi Joshua and Wendy Heller of Sandy Springs announce the birth of a daughter, Amelia Mae, on April 28, 2005. 25 Years Ago Sept. 21, 1990 ■ Temple Beth David held the dedication Sunday, Sept. 16, for its building, the first synagogue in Gwinnett County.
50 Years Ago Sept. 17, 1965 ■ Congregation Or VeShalom will give a reception in honor of its new assistant rabbi, David Arzouane, in the synagogue social hall Sunday, Sept. 19, between 3 and 5 p.m. Rabbi Arzouane was born in Morocco, educated in England and received his ordination in June through Yeshiva University. He will assist Rabbi Joseph Cohen. ■ Iris Bierman, daughter of Mrs. Jack Bierman of Atlanta, became the bride of Benjamin J. Moss, son of Mrs. Robert Moss of New York, Sept. 5 at the Jewish Progressive Club.
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Israel Pride: Good News From Our Jewish Home Awesome aircraft range. Israel is working to double the range of the fifth-gen-
eration F-35 stealth fighter plane. Israel has named its version of the Lockheed
Martin plane Adir, Hebrew for awesome. The first two Adirs are due for delivery in December 2016. Dreamy way to fly. El Al Israel Airlines has announced an agreement to buy or lease 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, with an option to purchase 13 more. The price of the deal was not announced.
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Big quarter for investing. Private equity investments in Israeli companies climbed to $1.67 billion in 29 deals in the second quarter of 2015, up from $145 million invested in the second quarter of 2014 and the $385 million invested in 15 deals in the first quarter of 2015. The $2.1 billion invested in the first half of the year was the largest total since 2011. Fashion sense. Israel is home to one of the five most influential fashion schools in the world, Shenkar College’s fashion design department in Ramat Gan, according to Business of Fashion. The magazine rated Shenkar the 11thbest fashion school overall. 2,000-year-old podium found in Jerusalem. Archaeologists have excavated a podium on a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem street in the Old City, leading from the Siloam Pool to the Temple Mount. Four large stone rectangles form steps up to a platform, commonly used for public announcements in biblical times.
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Go forth and multiply. Six-year-old white rhinoceros Keren Peles has given birth to a female calf at the Ramat Gan Safari. She is the 27th rhino born at the safari, which belongs to an international consortium of zoos working to pull the white rhino back from the verge of extinction.
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3-D printed fashion collection. Danit Peleg used a relatively cheap, home 3-D printer to produce clothing for her final project at Israel’s Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat
Gan. Her video of the “dishwasher-safe” fabrics has had over 100,000 views. Imagine: If you are cold, just print yourself a sweater. A spoon to measure sweetness. Israeli startup Valiber has developed a spoonlike tool that measures the exact levels of sweetness in drinks and foods. “The swizzle” is a spoon with a sensor that communicates with a smartphone using Bluetooth. Valiber has also invented the “Val” scale to quantify sweetness. A better ice cream cone. Two Israeli entrepreneurs are drawing international interest with Bisconi, their line of flavored, whole-grain cones for ice cream. Co-founders Scott Apfelbaum and David Beker are proving the popularity of the healthier cones in shops in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva. Intel Israel’s next generation chip. The Israeli-developed Intel Skylake is a huge advance in microprocessor technology, with more than double the performance, triple the battery life, and 30 times the graphics of most computers in use today. It consumes just 3 watts of power; current chips use 30 to 45 watts. Tel Aviv light railway. Construction has begun on the Tel Aviv light-rail system. Workers started excavations near the Allenby Street-Yehuda Halevi Street intersection, site of one of the stations. The project is expected to take six years to complete. High-speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv link. Israel Railways has begun laying the tracks of a high-speed rail line between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv — the first in Israel to run on electricity. The 35-mile link will have five tunnels and eight bridges and cost around 7 billion shekels ($1.8 billion). Silver winner. Hanna KnyazyevaMinenko became the first Israeli woman (and second Israeli) to win a silver at the Track and Field World Championships when she finished second in the triple jump. She set an Israeli record of 14.78 meters (48 feet 6 inches). Billionaires galore. Every member of Forbes’ list of the 100 wealthiest Israelis is a billionare — in shekels. The billion-shekel cutoff for the list is the equivalent of $260 million. Compiled courtesy of verygoodnewsisrael. blogspot.com, Globes, Israel21c and other news sources.
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ewish National Fund will have a new co-president of its Atlantabased Southeast board of directors. Lawyer Howard Wexler will succeed Alan Lubel and join Alan Wolk as the region’s top lay leaders, JNF announced Wednesday, Sept. 9. “We are thrilled that Howard has chosen to take the helm in advancing JNF’s commitment to the land and people of Israel,” Southeast Regional Director Beth Gluck said. “He is a strategic thinker, a hard worker, and is dedicated to Israel’s security, prosperity and sustainability. Howard Wexler People respect him and are eager to work with him.” Wexler has worked within Atlanta with Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and the Jewish Educational Loan Fund. He has selected films and served on the steering committee of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. As a volunteer with Jewish Family & Career Services, he helped refugee families from Iraq and Eritrea. “JNF took an idea and helped make it into the homeland for Jews everywhere,” Wexler said. “Today, JNF continues to nurture Israel and help it reach its full potential. I want to do what I can to make Israel a better place for everyone who lives there and for those who want to visit. I can think of no better way to do this.” Wexler lives in Sandy Springs with his wife, Sharon. They have two adult children, Emily and Julie, who live with their families in Chicago. Wexler is a native of Erie, Pa. He went to the University of Illinois, then earned his law degree and his master’s in tax law from Emory University. His professional career has focused on legal and management roles in the financial services industry. He was general counsel and chief operating officer of American Security Insurance Group and chief executive officer of ALAC. He left Atlanta for about five years in 2002 to serve as general counsel and managing director of Balboa Insurance Group in Irvine, Calif. ■
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mbassador Judith Varnai Shorer didn’t have to come to the United States to take a position as Israel’s consul general to the Southeast in what many anticipate will be the final foreign posting of a distinguished, four-decade diplomatic career. During a visit to the Atlanta Jewish Times offices Wednesday, Sept. 9, part
of her extensive rounds to get to know the Jewish community since arriving in late July, Shorer said she considered Shanghai at one point. But the former ambassador to both Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina had her heart set on a return to the United States. “I love America,” she said. “I served here many years in New York and Washington. I wanted to come here.” Atlanta was the only U.S. opening, so here she came.
Just as she was Her husband, beginning to atOded, who is worktend meet-and-greet ing in the consulate, events with organizahas local history: He tions such as Jewish earned a bachelor’s National Fund, word degree from Georgia came from JerusaState University. lem about the plan to It’s a new exclose the consulate, perience for their as well as those in 10½-year-old daughPhiladelphia and San ter, Roni, who is in Francisco and the the fifth grade at the embassies in several Epstein School. The small nations. choice of a Jewish She began to day school, rather fight the closing, inthan a secular pricluding getting Sen. vate school such as Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer Lindsey Graham of the Atlanta InternaSouth Carolina to tional School, was important to Shorer: “I wanted for Roni join other Southern elected officials in a good school. It’s a Jewish school. … My sending letters of support for the consulate to the prime minister. Roni’s going to a Jewish school.” “Usually I’m not too shy,” Shorer Despite the occasional tears and homesickness, Shorer said her daugh- said. Then it was time for her first trip to ter is settling in well. As for Shorer, it has been a dizzy- Israel with a delegation in late August. ing first month and a half on the job, The 18-member Tennessee delegation even after all that experience in the was led by Gov. Bill Haslam, who Shorer United States and a visit with her pre- said got an instant lesson in Middle East geography in the Golan Heights. decessor, Opher Aviran, in January. His reaction, she said: “I looked It has also been a wet time. “Why do you need so much rain?” down, and then I understood.” Next up for her role as Israeli tour said Shorer, whose hometown of Beer Sheva is in the arid Negev. “Whenever guide: a delegation from Mississippi, I see the green everywhere, I could die providing the opportunity to win more support for the consulate while stabilizout of jealousy. Everything is green.” She arrived in the middle of the ing political support for Israel and per60-day congressional review period haps drumming up some business. As for the threat to close the confor the Iran nuclear deal. The Buckhead apartment her family inherited sulate under budget cuts to the Minisfrom the Avirans required three weeks try of Foreign Affairs, Shorer said she of renovations. She was waiting for will fight as long as is necessary to keep the arrival of her shipping container, it open. People who want to join her in packed with 262 boxes of her belong- that battle should let Prime Minister ings; she acknowledged bringing too Benjamin Netanyahu’s office know how they feel. ■ many things.
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A Long Day feed him and drop him off at the baby sitter. Think of me hard at work while you’re relaxing. You’ve earned it.” “Thanks, honey. Have a great day. Love you.” Clutching the phone to her ear, Marci listened to the dial tone for a long moment before reluctantly putting it down. As if Amy would come
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back on the line if she held on long enough. But no, the rest of the world, her daughter included, had important things to accomplish today. Glancing through the window, she watched streams of people climbing in and out of cars and moving purposefully toward their destinations. Oy. It might be time for another cup of coffee. Within the hour, Marci joined throngs of shoppers, carefully selecting produce and other household items. “How are you?” the cashier asked brightly as she tallied the purchases. Bored. Depressed. Feeling like a has-been. “Great, thanks. And you?” Marci asked. “Outstanding. Thank you for asking. You have yourself a wonderful day.” Marci wished the conversation wouldn’t end just yet. Couldn’t they talk about the weather or grandchildren or something? Now, Marci, get a hold of yourself. What would you tell a friend in this position? Stay productive, of course! Why, there are a million things you can do! Join a gym, volunteer… Heaving the groceries inside, Marci began putting everything away. But when she looked at the clock, its face seemed to mock her. It was only 11 o’clock in the morning. This was going to be a long day. ••• As a certified chaplain and coordinator of Bikur Cholim of Atlanta, a society that assists families with medical needs, I know Marci’s situation is not unique in our aging population. Do you have suggestions for Marci? Readers are invited to email me and offer guidance. ■
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merald eyes glistening, Marci sat in her seat of honor and pasted a smile on her face while rivers of emotion roiled just beneath the surface. Fifty years, a lifetime, really. And now they were coming to a close, relegated to poignant memories frozen among the pages of time. It was touching that the entire staff and parent body had decided to pay tribute for her decades of devotion to her students. And so she would play the part, graciously accepting their acknowledgments of appreciation, the bronze plaque that would adorn her beige living room wall, and the stunning album encapsulating precious moments from a career that had breathed life and vibrancy into her days. Tears, stay at bay. You’ll have your time later when we have privacy, Marci told herself silently. For now, lift your head with humility and pride, and step away from the institution where you nurtured and raised generations with endless patience, devotion and love. Poise and grace, Marci. Thatta girl. When the sun’s rays brushed her shoulders the next morning, Marci glanced at her bedside alarm clock and leapt out of bed. “Seven-thirty already? I mustn’t be late!” Rushing into the kitchen, she began brewing her morning coffee. And suddenly she remembered. She was no longer a veteran teacher. She was retired, put out to pasture, a relic. They didn’t need her stimulating lessons or creative methods anymore. A fresh-faced young teacher would stand in her place, gently coaxing her young charges to achieve their goals. Sinking heavily onto a cushioned chair, Marci leisurely sipped her coffee and wondered. What will I do today? Where will I go? Shopping, cooking and laundry are all worthy possibilities, but to fill a day? Or what about those longoverdue medical appointments? Somehow none of the prospects was overly appealing. The phone jarred her from her reverie. “Hi, Mom, good morning. How’s the first day of retired life treating you?” “Oh, it’s amazing,” Marci said, injecting cheer into her voice. “What a treat! A whole day to use for anything I want.” “Sorry to interrupt, Mom, but the baby just started crying. I’d better
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Our View
Game Over
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he charade that was the congressional review of the Iran nuclear deal came to an abrupt, anticlimactic end Thursday, Sept. 10. If you’re paying close attention at home — and we’re sure plenty of people in Washington are hoping you’re not — a motion to close debate and end a filibuster failed to get the required 60 votes because 42 Democratic senators stood united. Thus, there will be no vote on a resolution to reject the Iran deal, no veto of that resolution by President Barack Obama, and no failed Senate vote to override that veto. The deal goes into effect Sept. 17 when Congress fails to act within the 60 days allowed by the Corker-Cardin law. Yes, the House Republicans are refusing to give in, claiming that the president failed to meet the terms of Corker-Cardin, formally the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, because of secret side deals between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran. Technically, that gambit has some merit; practically, it’s as pointless as all the times the same House Republicans voted to topple Obamacare. At some point, you have to acknowledge that the final whistle has sounded and the winning team has left the field. You can keep running across the goal line and spiking the ball in celebration of your “touchdowns,” but none of it counts. It makes far more sense to go home and practice for the next game. On the other hand, those on the winning side would be wise to temper their celebrations and prepare for what’s ahead as well. This deal may be better than no deal; it very well may be the best deal possible. Certainly, once it was signed, it was the only deal possible. But “best deal possible” and “good deal” aren’t the same thing. A nuclear-armed Iran in 10 or 15 years is better than a nuclear-armed Iran tomorrow, but it is not and never will be a good thing. Obama’s strongest argument in favor of this deal is the time it has bought the West to gain intelligence and develop a strategy for Iran, which has confounded U.S. policymakers since before the 1979 revolution. That’s why the ending to this approval game is so disappointing. Even though the president did not sign the Corker-Cardin law in good faith — he declared as much when he vowed to veto any rejection resolution before anyone outside the negotiations had even seen the deal — he could have appeased those who oppose him on this matter but are not his enemies. Having engaged in the process with speeches and webcasts and a parade of administration officials testifying before Congress, Obama should have let the game play out even though the fix was in as he had 34 senators to protect any veto. Using a filibuster felt like running up the score. Giving opponents their day of meaningless headlines about rejecting the deal and forcing the veto would have been cathartic and allowed all of us, inside and outside Washington, to focus on getting the most possible out of this deal. Instead, we’re left feeling incomplete and facing rhetorical and perhaps legal battles for months or years to come, costing us precious time to prepare for the decade after the deal. Sept. 10, therefore, was nothing to celebrate. ■
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to do was get out of the way and let them become ime isn’t something I normally get too worked themselves. I could have messed them up; I couldn’t up about. have improved them. Sure, I find it surprising I’m eight months My wife likes to give me credit for holding the from being the father of a college graduate and a household together while she was pursuing professecond high school graduate, and every now and sional fulfillment. But she’s so good at what she does then I’m caught off-guard by that gray-haired guy that only unnecesstaring back from the mirror. I’m sary guilt about the in no hurry to get older, but I’m time she had for our at peace with the process. Editor’s Notebook self-sufficient sons Still, trading in the 5775 By Michael Jacobs could have slowed Dressler’s calendar for 5776 is mjacobs@atljewishtimes.com her down. And as for tougher than in most years. holding the houseIt’s not because I likely hold together, well, have more calendars in my past just watch out for falling trees and collapsing decks than in my future, and it’s not because 5775 will be and floors if you ever visit our house. marked in my personal Book of Life as the best ever. When I make myself look back at that period It was not. There was a run of about 14 years from between times at the AJT, I see the things I didn’t do. my senior year in high school through the end of I didn’t write the great American novel, languishing 2000 where life just kept getting better. around Page 40 for more than a decade. I didn’t have But 5775 was the year I got back on track. I the drive to start my own business, although I never didn’t spend 40 years in a desert, but there were lacked for ideas. I didn’t develop into a dominant times after I left the Atlanta Jewish Times in midpoker pro or even a winning poker player. 2008 when a few laps around the Sinai seemed But then an email came from Michael Morris a preferable to the series of unfulfilling jobs, freelance couple of months into 5775, and suddenly I was back assignments and long periods of underemployment. where I know I’m meant to be, doing the job with the We shouldn’t let our jobs define us or become so skills G-d granted me to make the biggest contribudominant in our lives that we feel empty or guilty or tion I can to my community. worthless when they’re gone, but there are a lot of Back at the editor’s desk, I’ve made plenty of things we do that we shouldn’t. mistakes — more errors of omission than comPeople ask me what I was doing in those years mission, I think, but too many of both — and I ask away from the AJT, and I usually mumble a few forgiveness of everyone I have wronged or offended. things from my LinkedIn page before concluding, But I’m still here; I haven’t blown this magical “Nothing worthwhile.” opportunity. No, 5775 wasn’t the best year of my life, That’s the painful truth: I can look back at more not even close, but I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated than six years of my life and not point to one thing a good year so much. So pardon me if I spend a few with pride. extra minutes looking back before embracing my Yes, I helped raise the kids, but if I’m honest, new best friend, 5776. ■ they’re such smart, well-adjusted boys that all I had
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Tekiyah! The World Responds at Last How does all this make me feel? Many competing simultaneous emotions. First, as always, there is deep and profound sadness that our people could not enjoy a similar welcome anywhere in the late 1930s and early
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1940s. Wistful thoughts of “what if” and what could have been if the world had behaved differently. Next is great joy and comfort that the humanitarian crisis that we Israelis have uncomfortably watched unfold across the border (but could not openly get involved in, for obvious reasons) is finally being noticed by someone other than us. Then come anger and frustration that once again one insane man is being allowed to cause immeasurable suffering to millions of people. (Yes, I know it is not just Assad behind all of this, but he is responsible for a large measure.) And happy again and optimistic that the world seems to have learned something in the past 75 years and that people are finally doing the right thing after four years of the Syrian people’s terrible suffering. And finally, chest-bursting pride that my very own daughter treated hundreds of wounded Syrians for nine months as part of her army service as a paramedic in the most moral army in the world, the Israel Defense Forces. It seems that the world is heeding the sound of the shofar. I pray that this phenomenon continues and spreads. Shana tova; may this year be a better one for everyone. ■
Just for our people there was nowhere to go — no one would let them in.
Originally from New Jersey, Rena Magun made aliyah from Virginia 20 years ago. She is the CEO of israelbarbatmitzvah.com. She and her husband, Rabbi David Ebstein, are living the dream in Jerusalem with their four children, ages 19 to 27. This piece originally appeared as a Times of Israel blog post.
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naking lines of exhausted refugees, walking, riding, some grasping children, a few belongings, looks of total helplessness on their faces. Not knowing exactly where they will end up but hoping that the future will be better than the dreadful present. Police barricades in train stations resulting in bedlam and panic at the railway station as people push and shove, fighting for a chance to save their families. And horrible photos of dead toddlers. No, I am not talking about the endless footage on TV of the current refugee crisis in Europe. I am talking about the screenplay of my childhood as the daughter of Holocaust survivors growing up in the United States. To this day, I cannot get on a crowded bus or train without thinking weird thoughts about the Holocaust. So when I watch footage of today’s refugee crisis in Europe with my 93-yearold father here in Jerusalem in our sovereign state of Israel, I experience sensory overload. “Look at them,” he says. “The Germans are handing out candies and stuffed animals to their children. Just for our people there was nowhere to go — no one would let them in.” Sentences like these were an everyday thing in my house. Fortunately at a young age I developed a filter that enabled me to grow up somewhat normally (my children’s opinions notwithstanding), realizing that my parents’ experiences scarred them deeply and that they just needed to verbalize their paranoid, terror-driven thoughts. But this time, even as his memory is slipping, Saba Joe is right on target, for the irony is screaming at us. Germany, of all places, is welcoming the wretched refuse of Syria’s teeming shores. Is it out of guilt? Out of compassion? Out of a desperate hope that one amazing, internationally broadcast act of morality will somehow grant them the forgiveness for which so many of them yearn? All of the above? We can’t know.
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Joining Pride Places Lives Above Politics
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few short weeks ago I was sitting in a palace in Salzburg, Austria, overlooking a castle nestled into the steep peaks of the Alps and surrounded by nearly 60 Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and allied activists from around the world. It was a surreal experience, realizing that, while we all hailed from wildly different parts of the world — the United States, Canada, Argentina, Hungary, Russia, Mexico, Great Britain, Israel and elsewhere — we were all doing the same work across the planet: making the Jewish world more welcoming for LGBTQ people. The gathering was called Eighteen:22, a subversive reference to Leviticus 18:22, the first of two biblical verses traditionally interpreted to prohibit male-male sexual relations and used as the basis for anti-LGBT rulings and actions across faith traditions throughout history. Eighteen:22 was created as a Connection Point program of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Over the course of three days we learned, debated, created and shared together. And as wonderful as all those moments were — and they really, really were — the most powerful moment of the gathering was the realization that every one of us was there because we had been told by mainstream Judaism that there was no place for us. We had been told that we weren’t wanted, we didn’t belong, and we needed to go somewhere else, and none of us accepted that. We were brought together because every single one of us said, “Just as our gender or sexual identity is immutable, so is our Judaism, and we belong.” Every single one of us took our Judaism into our own hands and created organizations, programs or welcoming spaces for folks who had been told they didn’t belong, and it is incredible. There were people who had created Orthodox + LGBT minyanim (prayer groups) and social groups. There were people from Russia who could be involved in LGBT life only in an academic format for fear of their own safety. And there were numerous others creating inclusive and safe social and educational spaces to remind us all
that we, too, deserve a place at the Jewish table. It was certainly empowering, and I returned to Atlanta energized and ready to expand what we’ve been doing at the Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diver-
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sity (SOJOURN), armed with new skills and tactics gathered from colleagues around the world. When I returned, to say I had whiplash would be an understatement. In a first for SOJOURN and the Jewish community, over 40 Jewish agencies are coming together in support for the LGBT community and will march together at Atlanta Pride on Oct. 11. I was ecstatic to hear the news. At the same time, four Jewish agencies in Atlanta said that uniting with SOJOURN for Pride — or even for a suicide prevention program or discussion of bathroom safety — would be too “political” and “divisive,” and they were concerned about the statement that they would be making to their members. (They said some other, very offensive things to us, too, but I don’t want to embarrass them here.) What is the “political statement” that these agencies would be making by joining with SOJOURN and the Atlanta Jewish community for Pride? It would be a statement that, as Jews, we cannot accept that 20 percent of all lesbian, gay and bisexual people and 41 percent of all transgender people attempt suicide because of a lack of societal acceptance. It would be a statement of understanding that this is a problem that can be solved by opening our doors, creating safe spaces, and embracing our community members exactly as they are, even when it makes us uncomfortable. It would be a statement that when we accept people exactly as they are without conditions, we literally keep them alive, and when we demand that LGBTQ people hide who they are or attempt to change who they are, suicide rates skyrocket.
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Top: Robbie Medwed (navy shirt, second row) joins nearly 60 other LGBTQ activists and allies at the Eighteen:22 conference in Salzburg, Austria. Left: Eighteen:22 founder Robert Saferstein speaks at the gathering in Salzburg.
It would be a statement that accepting LGBTQ people exactly as they are — and celebrating them — is the ultimate act of pikuach nefesh, preserving life. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Jews still face disproportionate abuse, bullying and discrimination in daily life, and even more so in the South. Our synagogues and Jewish agencies have the power to help end this abuse and truly improve our world. All we need to do is stop trying to hide behind a claim of politics and realize that we’re talking about our children, our friends, our neighbors, and, yes, our congregants. It’s not enough to refuse on the grounds that we may make some people uncomfortable. Discomfort is an incredibly small price to pay to keep children alive. Many people have asked me what the one takeaway from Eighteen:22 was and what I learned. I learned that there are incredible people around the world putting their livelihoods — and sometimes their
lives — at risk to increase LGBTQ acceptance. I learned that even here in Atlanta, the capital of the LGBTQ South, literal homophobia and transphobia — the fear of embracing LGBTQ people and celebrating them — is alive and well in our Jewish institutions, especially in institutions that claim to represent the entire Jewish community. I learned that our work is far from over, even in places and with people who claim to be welcoming already. But most of all, I learned that those of us who are doing this work every day are not alone. That there are good days and there are bad days, but in the long run there will always be far more good days than bad. And I learned that even though the institutions and people against full LGBTQequality seem to be getting louder, the number of institutions and people working toward full LGBTQ equality is growing exponentially every single day across the world. There will be a time when people stop using the claim of politics as a shield to hide their homophobia and transphobia, and there will be a time when the idea of having to be loudly welcoming and marching in the streets to show acceptance will seem quaint. But until then, we’ll keep marching, keep working and keep fighting. You’re welcome to join us and the rest of Atlanta’s Jewish community Sunday, Oct. 11. You can find details at sojourngsd. org/atlpride. ■ Robbie Medwed is the assistant director of SOJOURN.
Randy Kessler is founding partner of the family law firm Kessler & Solomiany.
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e all know that voice, the one in your navigation system telling you to “turn left.” She tells us when to turn, how far until our next turn, and when we have arrived at our destination. But the part we can learn from is when we do not follow her wishes. Sometimes we just know better. So we ignore her instructions or advice, and we don’t turn left. And the amazing thing is what happens next. She does not ask us why we ignored her words. She does not tell us we are making a mistake. She simply recalculates the route and tells us the next turn, given where we now are. Guest Column Isn’t that amazing? What if By Randy Kessler we all behaved like that? Instead of focusing on mistakes or differences of opinion, what if we simply decided on the best way to move forward from where we are (not from where we have been)? Wouldn’t that be a relationship changer? As a divorce lawyer, I often feel like the navigation voice. Clients ignore our advice, do things we wish they wouldn’t and create their own paths. Our job is to figure out where to go from here, not to criticize them for ignoring our advice. Unfortunately, much of the debate, dispute and negotiation in divorce cases reverts to complaints about past choices made, requests ignored and poor decisions. Once in the midst of divorce, most of those decisions are well in the past and cannot be undone. If they can, great, but if not, then the best course is usually to look forward and to shape the future out of or from where everyone currently stands. If divorcing parties, or even individuals not going through a divorce, could look more to the future and how to get to where they want FROM WHERE THEY CURRENTLY ARE, wouldn’t things be better, smoother, easier? Married people often want their spouse to be different, and to do more things the way they do. But people are different and make different choices. Some people prefer the highway; others prefer backroads. But whatever the choice, once it is made, we must keep moving forward toward our destination. And when you ask someone to turn left and they don’t, simply recalculate and consider what is best given where everyone is now, not where they were. ■
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Religion and Magic: Recalling Shtetl Life
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hen I was born almost 90 years ago, most Jews in my city, Munkacs, and especially in the little villages interspersed around it, practiced a form of Judaism that was intermixed with magic. Belief in magic has assumed its own aura of sacredness. A most common form of magic was the belief in the evil eye, the ayin harah, or, as we called it in Yiddish, a nehoreh. Belief in the power of the evil eye has a long history. It is even mentioned in the Talmud. Hasn’t Rabbi Eliezer cautioned us that we should distance ourselves from evil eyes? As a boy I was subject to migraine headaches that were caused, I believe, by the stress induced by educational demands. I rose each morning before 6, rushed with my father to the synagogue for morning services, hurried back for my breakfast, then rushed to school. It took me almost a half-hour to get to school, which began sharply at eight. Classes lasted most days till
1 and twice weekly till 2 p.m. Classes over, I hurried home. My parents had finished their noon meal, which was our main meal of the day. I ate hurriedly because by 2 my tutor came, and I spent the next 3½ hours studying Talmud. Like all students, my evenings were spent on homework. I was happy when Friday arrived and I was free
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from my religious studies. My grandmother and my mother were of divided opinions regarding the treatment of my headaches. My grandmother held the opinion that my headaches were the consequence of other people’s envy leading them to place a nehoreh, and she treated me through magic. She made me breathe the steam that formed by immersing seven live coals into a glass of water.
My mother still believed in the power of magic and insisted that I wear a cameo hung on my neck with a red string, though I was also given a dose of Empirin, a medication similar to aspirin. The cameo was a coin that was blessed (or, as they said in Yiddish, beshprochen) by my grandfather’s Chassidic rabbi. Mother was influenced by modernity; hence, the chemical medication. But a little magic could not hurt. One interesting feature of my ailment is that I never had a headache on Shabbat. Of course on Shabbat I was free from the educational pressures, and I could take a nice Shabbat nap without any guilt. After Havdalah, the Shabbat magic disappeared, and my duty and pressures to study returned. Some forms of magic and superstition were quite bizarre. My grandmother’s neighbor Reb Chayim Berger believed that bats had the power to ward of all evil from his home. On top of the main entrance he nailed a small bat. Reb Chayim slit a captured bat’s throat with a sharpened silver coin and nailed its carcass above the main
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entrance. He believed in the power of magic to have almost the same power as did the mezuzah — almost. There were other anti-magic acts I had to perform. When my hair and nails were cut, they had to be burned, lest someone could use them to perform magic against me. I had to learn certain “sprech” words to guard me from harm. When encountering a stray dog, I immediately began to recite “Hint, hint, ich bin Yaakov’s kind” (dog, dog, I am Jacob’s child), which I was assured would guard me from being bitten. Perhaps the ritual almsost everyone performed before Yom Kippur was in its own way a form of magic. Kaparoth, and I am certain that many readers will disagree, was a ritual highly intermixed with magic. Any act that combines the pronouncing of certain magical words with prescribed acts to gain the power to achieve desired ends is magic. Though Judaism theoretically opposes magic, such are nonetheless included in most religions. In this sense, shlogen kaporess, the act of cleansing sins by transferring them unto a chicken, is not a prayer; it is an act of magic. The idea of transferring sins to an animal is rooted in the ancient magical ritual of the scapegoat. The high priest on Yom Kippur in the ancient Temple selected a goat on which he transferred all the sins of the nation, and after the goat was killed and thrown off a cliff in Azazel, the high priest was told that the red thread on the goat’s neck tuned white. The priest then declared that the nation’s sins were forgiven. The kaparoh is founded on the same principle. Males took roosters, and females used hens, holding them over their heads and reciting the magic formula: This is our exchange, this is our ransom, this is our atonement, this rooster will go to his death, and we shall enter into a long life of peace.” Even in my young days, this exchange — the life of the rooster for mine — seemed not only a bizarre form of magic, but contrary to Jewish moral principles. It violated the fundamental idea in Judaism that each individual is responsible for his deeds. If I did something wrong, shouldn’t I have to restore the status quo ante? The essence of Yom Kippur is to acknowledge one’s sins, be accountable for one’s wrongs and return to the
righteous path. But for 2,000 years or more, we tried to find an easier way to deal with our sins and to avert any consequences associated with the wrongs we committed — hence, the use of scapegoats. But even as a young boy I felt that kaporess was an illogical act because forgiveness can be achieved only through a change of behavior and not a transfer of the people’s sins onto a poor animal, especially on a chicken. Moreover, unlike the goat that was used during the services in the ancient Temple, where the goat was killed and its death did not benefit anyone, it not so with the chicken. It would have been perhaps an even greater sin if we, not being rich, could not derive any food benefit from the chicken. So after everyone transferred sins onto the poor animal we took it to the shochet at the slaughterhouse, where the chickens were killed according to the law. They served as a wonderful meal from which we derived the soup and meat that fortified us for the upcoming fast. But here is the rub of the problem I encountered and for which I sought an answer from my mother. “Mame,” I said, “if we did put all of our sins on the chicken and now we will eat it, will not the sins that were in the chicken become transferred back to us?” I thought it was a logical question. The answer I received was the same that I received when I asked an answerable question. “Tuli,” she told me sternly, “freygt micht nischt a solchige fragen” — don’t ask me such questions. May you have a happy and blessed year. ■
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Alterman to Play 2 Atlanta-area native Joe Alterman, an acclaimed jazz pianist, is playing a pair of concerts Sunday, Oct. 11, at the Marcus Jewish Community Center. Alterman, who spends most of his time in New York or on tour, returns for several Atlanta concerts a year. These shows will be at 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $17 for JCC members and $22 for nonmembers; www.atlantajcc. org/boxoffice or 678-812-4002. Human Trafficking Program Greater Atlanta Hadassah is working with Covenant House, the Interfaith Children’s Movement and the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for a panel discussion on human trafficking Wednesday, Oct. 7, at Con-
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Gordon Now Atlanta COO Dan Gordon was named Atlanta’s chief operating officer by Mayor Kasim Reed on Monday, Aug. 22. The appointment came a year after Gordon was named one of the Atlanta Jewish Times’ 40 Under 40 for 2014. Gordon was working as a senior operating officer for the Home Service Store when Reed picked him. “I am pleased to have Dan Gordon join the administration,” Reed said in announcing the pick. “He brings to us a wealth of senior leadership and operating experience, and I am confident he will enhance our administration’s focus on strengthening public safety, balancing the city’s budget and building its reserves, and improving customer service. His appointment marks an important step forward in continuing our city’s success.” In his new role, Gordon oversees the following city departments: Aviation; Fire; Police; Corrections; Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs; Planning and Community Development; Public Works; and Watershed Management. “It is an honor to serve the city of Atlanta in this capacity,” Gordon said. “I look forward to working with our talented staff to provide the highest level of service, efficiency and results. I would like to thank Mayor Reed for this opportunity, and I am determined to see Atlanta continue to thrive.” In becoming Reed’s fourth COO in 5½ years as mayor, Gordon succeeds Michael Geisler, who resigned in July. Before HSS, Gordon’s jobs included working as an executive at the Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses, where he co-founded and ran the Atlanta Falcons Physical Therapy Centers. He holds an M.B.A. and a bachelor’s from Emory University.
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Rabbi Freundlich spent the previous eight years as the associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Jacob, a role he still holds part time. “The strength of the school is its ability to be a community yeshiva focusing on the needs of individual
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dents in the afternoon. The curriculum includes core subjects such as math, science, English and history, as well as physical fitness, SAT prep and Jewish history. The school, accredited by the Georgia Accrediting Commission, also offers AP and online courses. “This is an opportunity to help students grow,” Rabbi Wiggins said. They “get educational life skills they need for college and beyond.” While many hours are dedicated
each week to studying, the yeshiva emphasizes growth and maturity of the entire person. Promoting exercise, the yeshiva arranges for the boys to play basketball several nights a week at the Torah Day School gym and compete in baseball and basketball leagues. In the area of community service, YOY has an active chesed club that helps build sukkahs around the community and reaches out to those with special needs by volunteering for the Friendship Circle. The school arranges Shabbatons and has started sending a delegation to New York to participate in a model beit din (religious court) competition with other high schools. On its first trip last semester, Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael won third place. “High school is a really great time,” Rabbi Neuberger said. “These are critical, defining years if you can create the right environment inspiring wholesomeness and tolerance.” The yeshiva has experienced a growth spurt in recent years, nearly outgrowing its current location, Rabbi Neuberger said. “There is a lot to be thankful for,” he said, recognizing that “the growth of the yeshiva and the growth of the community reflect each other.” At its annual fundraising dinner Sunday, Nov. 8, Ohr Yisrael is honoring community supporters Dr. Thomas and Judy Spira, whose three sons exemplify YOY’s graduates. Menachem, a member of the first graduating class in 2006, is in his third year of medical school at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Avi, who graduated in 2008, is learning at Yeshiva Ner Israel in Baltimore and beginning law school. A 2010 graduate, Yaakov is learning at Ner Israel and is in a joint program of Talmudic studies and premed. Graduates may no longer ride bikes to school, but the paths they choose to travel in life will forever be influenced by their growing high school years at Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael. ■
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Book Festival Features Big News and Jonathan Kellerman and their son, Jesse, presenting Faye’s “The Theory of Death” and Jonathan and Jesse’s “The Golem of Paris” on Nov. 12. The Esther G. Levine community read this year is Westheimer’s “The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre.” The prologue to the festival could be the most interesting night of all: Knesset member and historian Michael Oren speaks at Atlanta Jewish Academy on Oct. 7 about “Ally,” his memoir about his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013.
Oren made headlines amid the debate over the Iran nuclear deal when the release of “Ally” revealed his observations about the damage done to the U.S.-Israel relationship by President Barack Obama. Tickets to Oren’s talk are $18 for JCC members and $24 for nonmembers. “For 18 days, we invite people from across the Southeast to meet these renowned authors and enjoy unique programs, including an evening of comedy, a delicious luncheon prepared by an award-winning chef, a one-manshow by a founding member of a famous ’60s rock band, and much more,”
said Jacobs’ co-chair, Susan Tourial. The festival for the second year is supporting the Atlanta Jewish Coalition for Literacy with the book donation program Project GIVE. Starting Oct. 1, bins will be available at the JCC’s front desk to accept donations of new or gently used secular books for use in tutoring kindergartners through thirdgraders in public schools. The children get to keep the books. Last year Project GIVE collected more than 2,000 books. Tickets are on sale now through www.atlantajcc.org/bookfestival and 678-812-4005. ■
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he 24th Book Festival of the Marcus Jewish Community Center opens and closes with a prominent network news anchor and includes more than 40 authors over 2½ weeks. “We are thrilled to offer special author events for artists and musicians, families and book clubs, scholars and historians,” said Deborah Jacobs, one of the festival co-chairs. “Authors will discuss books with topics including Israel, religion and political satire, humor, mystery, and popular fiction. Our Book Festival truly has something to offer all book lovers.” The festival runs from Nov. 5, when longtime NBC newsman David Gregory talks about his memoir of faith, “An Unlikely Spiritual Journey,” until Nov. 22, when ABC “Nightline” veteran Ted Koppel discusses his investigative work “Lights Out: A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath.” Like most of the festival, both of those events are at the Marcus JCC, 5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody. Each is $18 for Marcus JCC members and $24 for nonmembers. The most expensive tickets for the festival — $26 for members, $31 for nonmembers — are Saturday night appearances by Judy Blume on Nov. 7 and Mitch Albom on Nov. 14, but tickets to those events include first-edition copies of their new novels. Some of the festival events are free, including: • A conversation at The Temple on Nov. 9 between Ambassador Dennis Ross and Emory professor Ken Stein about Ross’ new book on the Middle East, “Doomed to Succeed.” • A Kristallnacht commemoration speech by Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the Besser Holocaust Memorial Garden on Nov. 10. • A program Nov. 19 with two authors of history books, Harry Lembeck of “Taking on Theodore Roosevelt” and Robert Weintraub of “No Better Friend.” • Appearances by local authors Mike Wien (“The Specific Edge”) on Nov. 8, Chana Shapiro and Meta Miller (“Fruitfly Rabbi”) on Nov. 12, and Josh Levs (“All In”) on Nov. 22. Other headliners at the festival include Arlene Alda with her husband, actor Alan Alda, a former festival headliner himself, talking about her “Just Kids From the Bronx” on Nov. 15; Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Nov. 21 (your $24 or $29 ticket includes his latest book on Abraham); and Faye
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Dragon Con: Atlanta’s Not-So-Obvious Jewish Festival By Cliff Weiss and Gabriel Weiss
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veryone knows Dragon Con means geeks and nerds parading around downtown in costume (and sometimes not enough costume). The five-day gathering over Labor Day weekend drew more than 70,000 paid attendees this year, up by approximately 5,000 from last year, and packed hotels and restaurants downtown without bringing crime or other problems. A less obvious aspect of the convention is its focus on American Jews in science and science fiction. Many events, of course, discuss the superheroes and villains created by such Jews as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Bob Kane, Joel Simon and Steven Spielberg, but other events address the contributions of Jewish scientists including Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Robert Oppenheimer and Richard Feynman. This year’s convention included programs on “The Science and Predictions of ‘Back to the Future’ ”; “Fission, Fusion and other Energy Sources”; “Relativity Is Practical”; “Connecting Brains and Computers”; “Cryonics”; and “The Year in Science.” Dragon Con
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is a fun way to get your kids interested in math and science while taking pride in the major contributions Jews have made to science and science fiction. After the death Feb. 27 of Leonard Nimoy, the Jewish actor who made the hamsa famous as the Vulcan greeting, a special event honored him. For many fans, Nimoy’s Spock was both the epitome of and the inspiration for much modern science fiction. The most popular program was the Dragon Con night at the Georgia Aquarium. Not only did the event sell out, but thousands of people had to be turned away because of fire regulations. Already known as a prime venue for special events, the aquarium also proved to be a place for Aquaman to reign supreme. Every year, Dragon Con selects a local charity to support. Past beneficiaries have included the Marcus Autism Center, the Atlanta Community Food Bank, the Georgia Conservancy and Noah’s Ark Animal Sanctuary. Dragon Con this year raised over $100,000 for the Lymphoma Research Foundation. In addition, the convention is the most successful blood drive that Life-
South holds all year — collecting more than 7,000 pints of blood. No wonder
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Top left: Harry Potter and friends make their way through the parade. Left Bottom: A multiverse of costumed characters provides music during the Dragon Con parade. Right: Central to Marvel’s Avengers, Ironman powers his way through the parade.
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espite the superheroes and Disney princesses clogging a half-mile’s worth of downtown Atlanta annually since 1987, Dragon Con can be a mystery. Dragon Con is a yearly pop culture convention that includes a parade, costume contests, workshops and celebrity panels. One such panel culminated in Jewish actor Aaron Abrams of NBC’s “Hannibal” fighting off storm troopers from inside a hall of the Hyatt Regency. Meanwhile, an array of Jewish or Jewish-created comic book characters posed for photos with toddlers and grandmothers alike. You probably know such Jewish pop culture staples as Stan Lee’s characters and Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi films, but what about Jewish comic book heroes? Did you know … X-Men supervillain Magneto’s real name? The X-Men films reveal Magneto as Erik Lehnsherr, a Jewish-born German who survived the Holocaust. Yet Magneto was born Max Eisenhardt. He assumed another identity before making his way to Israel and meeting Charles Xavier. How Kitty Pryde defeated Dracula? X-Men character Kitty Pryde (Katherine Anne Pryde) was created as the granddaughter of Samuel Prydeman, a Holocaust survivor. In 1982’s Uncanny XMen, Kitty defeats Dracula with her silver Star of David necklace. How the Thing spent his childhood? Born Benjamin Jacob Grimm, the Fantastic Four’s Thing needed 40 years to reveal his religion. Not only is he shown to be Jewish, but Grimm recites the Kaddish and celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah in “Remembrance of Things Past.” What Batwoman’s holiday plans were? DC’s Kathy Kane, aka Batwoman, was created in 1956, only to be written out of existence in 1985. She was resurrected in 2006 as a modern, out lesbian who is Jewish. During her recent run, she celebrated Chanukah for the first time. ■
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hoochee High School senior this summer launched recruitdiaries.com, providing a first-person perspective on college recruiting of high school athletes from the athletes themselves. In August, a few weeks after creat-
Notre Dame coming the site, Miller mit Parker Bouwas contacted by dreaux and 2017 USA Today High four-star UniversiSchool Sports about ty of Georgia comteaming up. mit Deejay Dallas. “A few thouMiller, who sand people had plays varsity soccer visited,” Miller said. for Chattahoochee, “I got an email from has had to reach Josh Barnett at USA out to athletes to Today, and he asked ask them to write me if I wanted to for his site. He partner with them hopes USA Today because I do somewill help athletes thing that is differEvan Miller is a Chattahoochee find him. ent from what they High senior. “When I starthave there.” The partnership does not involve ed, I didn’t think about getting big. I payment for Miller but should drive just wanted to write about sports and help people tell their story,” he said. national readers his way. Miller got the idea for a new take “When I got contacted by USA Today, on high school recruiting while he in- I started thinking about what I could terned with SCORE Atlanta, founded do for the future. Most of the athletes I by I.J. Rosenberg. Miller said he real- work with are not going to graduate in ized that traditional media rarely offer 2016, so I hope to get a lot more recruits the athlete’s perspective when covering in the next year and keep building to see what type of relationships I can high school recruiting. Recruit Diaries hosts personal en- build and see where it takes me.” Recruit Diaries becomes a part of tries from four- and five-star football recruits, including 2017 five-star wide USA Today’s network of blogs from top receiver Tyjon Lindsey, 2016 four-star sports recruits nationwide. ■
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accabi USA is searching for elite Jewish athletes and volunteer staff for the Pan American Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile, Dec. 28 to Jan. 4. The 13th Pan Am Games will feature competition in four age groups ranging from 15 to 85 years old. Maccabi USA is recruiting: swimmers, all ages; tennis players, all ages; golfers, 19 and older; table tennis players, all ages; halfmarathoners, 18 and older; soccer players, young men born in 1997 and 1998 and women 18 and older; field hockey players, women 18 and older; and volleyball players, women 18 and older. “This is just a great opportunity for Jewish athletes to meet other Jewish athletes from all over the world,” said Shane Carr, the Maccabi USA program director. “For people who are curious about competing, the best thing to do is call us and see if they should move forward with the application process.” To apply, contact Carr at 267-627-5647 or scarr@maccabiusa.com. ■
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Ultimate Trip for Trio By Zack Itzkovitz he European Youth Ultimate Championships featured some of the best young ultimate Frisbee teams in the world Aug. 3 to 8, including three teams representing Israel. The tournament hosted 17 countries and 45 teams in all. Three young Jewish women from Atlanta and the Paideia School traveled to Frankfurt, Germany, to play for Israel’s under-20 women’s team: Kyra Bronfman, Syd Taylor-Klaus and Helen Samuel. Bronfman is a junior at Paideia. Taylor-Klaus and Samuel graduated in the spring. Before the European championships, the three played for Groove, Paideia’s varsity women’s ultimate team, leading it through an undefeated 2015 season with Taylor-Klaus as a team captain. For Samuel, like many American Jews, Israel doesn’t seem like her homeland. “It’s a bit surreal,” Samuel said of representing Israel. “I only feel distantly connected to Israel, so in the beginning it was difficult to rile up the same national pride that the Israelis have, but as the tournament continues, it has become much easier and more natural.” Miranda Knowles, who coaches Groove, commended the girls’ courage in traveling to Europe to represent Israel. “It takes bravery to travel abroad, play with new teammates who speak a different language, and learn a new team’s system,” Knowles said. “They’ve done this all in a few days, and I know they’re doing so with grace, humility and strength.” The girls’ competition proved formidable. Israel’s under-20 women’s team went winless in eight tournament games, coming closest in a 9-6 loss to Ireland. The under-17 co-ed teams went 0-6, while the under-20 co-ed team had some success, finishing 4-6. Grateful for the opportunity to learn from others, the Israeli teams showed strength, perseverance and support for one another. ■
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Kavod: The Oxygen in Your Relationship Editor’s note: Toco Hills resident Mindy Rubenstein, a contributor to the Atlanta Jewish Times, has launched a magazine for and by Atlanta’s Jewish women and children called Nishei, which is Hebrew for “women of.” The debut High Holiday issue of Nishei, with a distribution of 1,500 copies, is available free throughout the Jewish community at synagogues, schools, stores and restaurants. The magazine will be published five times a year. This article, part of an ongoing series on shalom bayis (marriage), provides a taste of what you’ll find in Nishei (www. nishei.org, 404-458-9997). By Julie Lurie
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hether you’ve been married five months, five years or five decades, you probably remember how fond you were of your husband when you first met — and how lucky you felt to marry such a great man. With each wedding anniversary, we grow into our relationships and become closer to and more comfortable with our husbands. Unfortunately, this
natural evolution has a harmful side effect of allowing us to lose that initial fondness and respect for our husbands. As we know and experience in our marriages, our husbands crave connection and intimacy, just as we do, but what we often don’t notice is that what they need the most is our respect. Respect is essential for their well-being. What’s ironic is that as wives, we stretch ourselves very thin giving to our husbands. This can include making dinner, even if you’re working full time; preparing his favorite dish for Shabbos; picking up dry cleaning; packing lunch so he doesn’t have to worry about leaving work to buy it; and going out of your way and surprising your husband on his birthday. Women often excel at this type of chesed (kindness). Here’s what many women don’t know: For men, these actions are secondary to what they really need in a marriage. The priority for men is respect; they need it as we all need oxygen to breathe. Our Torah illustrates this point well. One of the Lakewood roshei yeshiva, Rabbi Yeruchum Olshin shlit”a,
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physically, but Avraham also gave to his guests’ inner selves. By walking his guests out, he showed that it made an impact on him that they came — that they mattered! And it will make an impact that they’re leaving. We learn here that giving someone kavod (respect) is more important than giving to someone physically. I recently read a book that describes the decline of a successful researcher. After earning a doctorate from an Ivy League university and building a career lecturing hundreds of students and professors all over America, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in her 50s. The disease affected her memory, her vision and her ability to think properly. It caused her to go blank in the middle of a public presentation and forced her to wear a medical bracelet identifying her as memory-impaired after she got lost in her own neighborhood. Despite her incredible professional success, the people who held her in the highest regard treated her like a child. The pain she experienced was excruciating, to the point where she said,
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“I wish I had cancer, because even if I were dying, I would be seen as a hero.” In this shocking statement, she reveals that she would rather die than lose her dignity. Kavod comes from kaved, meaning heavy. The connection between these words reveals that someone we respect carries weight in our eyes. We look at him or her as a decent and respectable human being. How does a lack of kavod come through in our marriage? Here are some obvious examples of losing respect for our husbands: • Speaking to him in a demeaning way. (“How many times do I have to repeat myself for you to get it?”) • Correcting him in public. (“You are totally getting all the details wrong; are you going senile?”) • Making fun of him, even if he plays along. (“You couldn’t cook to save your life!”) • Criticizing him. (“You are so spaced out; you’re so self-centered.” As opposed to: “It’s hard for me when I feel ignored.”) Two points to think about: • Would I have spoken this way in the beginning of our marriage? • Would I speak this way in front of someone I respect (like the rabbi)? Here’s the million-dollar question: “What has changed between the beginning of the relationship and now?” Your husband likely hasn’t changed. Your behavior has changed. Your actions cause you to lose respect and admiration for him. The more you treat him disrespectfully, the less you respect him. This means that respecting your husband requires seeing him as a competent adult. In addition to recognizing and halting our disrespectful words and actions, we must also be aware of a more subtle way of disrespecting our husbands. Here’s where we get stuck: controlling them and telling them what to do. That might seem loving to you, but not to him. It makes him feel degraded — consciously and subconsciously. These subtle habits show disrespect: • Ignoring him. Texting while he’s talking makes him feel like a child, like his words can’t be that important. • Talking on your husband’s behalf and making decisions for him. • Asking “innocent” questions that demonstrate disapproval. (“You’re going to wear that?” “You’re going to ask your boss what?”) • Trying to explain to your husband what you would do if you were in his situation — hoping, of course, that he’ll do what you think he should do.
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Donald “Don” Myron Mendel, 83, native of Atlanta, passed away peacefully Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. He was born to Dorothy and Simon Mendel, both of blessed memory, on Dec. 29, 1931, and attended Druid Hills Elementary School. The 1947-1948 student body president, he graduated as valedictorian from Druid Hills High School in 1948 and was also a member of Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Scholastic Society and the National Honor Society. Don graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1952, where he was a member of ZBT Fraternity (president 1951) and Phi Beta Kappa. An avid UNC basketball fan, he served in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1953, commissioned as a second lieutenant, and served as adjutant at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. Don married the love of his life, Patricia Stewart from Birmingham, Ala., in 1953. He enjoyed a successful 20 years with H. Mendel & Co. Inc., Atlanta, where he was serving as vice president at the time of the company’s liquidation in 1973. Don then founded Mendel Distributing Co. with his brother, Jerome, in 1973 and served as the first vice president. He was a longtime member of Ahavath Achim Synagogue and will be remembered for his love of family. Don is survived by his wife, Patricia; a daughter, Cathy Shavin; two sons, Paul Mendel (Leslie) and Hal Mendel (Marcy); grandchildren Kate Wentz (Adam), Ellie Carruth (Deal), and Daniel, Andrew, Kevin and Alex Mendel; brothers Jerry Mendel (JoAnne) and Herb Mendel (Marsha); mother-in-law Ruth Rosenblum; and numerous nieces and nephews. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the William Breman Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30327, www.wbjh.org. Graveside services were held Friday, Sept. 11, at Arlington Memorial Park in Sandy Springs with Rabbi Neil Sandler officiating. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.
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Sonia Oxman, 91, of Atlanta passed away peacefully Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, after enjoying a long and wonderful life loving her family and community. She was born in Ozorow, Poland, to Helen and Aaron Rothman, both of blessed memory. Sonia was preceded in death by her loving husband of 54 years, Jerome; a son, Clifford; sisters Ida Aster, Molly Gersho and Bernice Tiger; and brothers Harry and Max Rothman. She is survived by a daughter, Helen Kraus (Steve); sons Allan (Marcelle) and Martin; grandchildren Zachary and Michael Kraus (Claire Reyner), Shelly Satisky (Bryan), Stephanie Simon (Jon), and Justin Oxman (Adriana); greatgrandchildren Alyson and Jay Satisky and Molly, Liza, James Simon and Abrham Oxman; sister Lilly Borsuk; sisters-in-law Hank Oxman and Mickie Rothman; and many nieces and nephews. A special thank-you to Ashley and Cynthia McKenzie, her loving caregivers. Sign the online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Graveside services were held Sunday, Sept. 13, at Greenwood Cemetery with Rabbi Neil Sandler officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Joseph Oxman Scholarship Fund through Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Arrangements by Dressler’s Jewish Funeral Care, 770-451-4999.
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t’s funny how the man in the moon can morph into the blue moon, harvest moon, fire orange moon. Ever visited a classroom the day after a full moon? Or taken a major exam the day after? Superstitions abound with the powers of the moon. When I was a young teen, my Mama (grandma z”l) gave me strict orders never to look directly at the moon. Looking at the moon would cause a lifetime of strife (shvereh yoren). So, needless to say, I would deliberately check the moon every night. I was young and invincible! I still check the moon every night. When I was growing up and eager to please the grown-ups, I listened carefully to their words of wisdom. Most of these wisdoms traveled from Europe to America. We were commanded not to question these words. May we only live and be well biz ah hundert un tvantsick (to 120 years of age). And now, dear reader, a blessing on your head as I share the following: Never open an umbrella in the house (or it will rain at your wedding). Do not step over people, especially children. You MUST walk back over them, or they will stop growing. My mom, who just about cleared 5 feet and her baby sister, who did not clear 4-11, had plenty of reasons to believe this to be true. Mom was a diligent enforcer of this one, for which my sisters and I are grateful; we grew beyond the 5-foot mark. Never place shoes on a dresser or a table; you will become an invalid. Who in her right mind would put shoes on a dresser or table? For good luck, marry on a Monday or a Thursday; if it is raining on your wedding day, even better. (For whom? Certainly not the bride, who bought a new dress and shoes and had her hair and makeup done.) I married on a Saturday night; we survived this act of rebellion. When you move into a new home, you must have a broom, salt, sugar and a loaf of bread. Move on a Monday or Thursday. The best luck will come if it is raining the day you move. You must have a mezuzah with a kosher klaff on every door except the bathroom. I suggest you also have lots of string in case of an emergency, such as your hem coming down while you hang a mezuzah. 38 When I became pregnant, I was
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Shaindle’s Shpiel By Shaindle Schmuckler shaindle@atljewishtimes.com
My father was a Kohen. My sisters and I are Kohenettes. We may not go to a cemetery, and for certain can’t walk on the soil. I bet you can guess the next one: A pregnant woman is not even to go near a cemetery. One day I received a box from my mom. I was certain I would find a sweet baby gift inside. Instead, I found two prayers written in Hebrew and placed in old frames. I waited until after 8 p.m., when the phone rates went down, to call my mom. She explained that the prayers must be hung over the baby’s bed to ensure the evil eye never reaches the baby. Other tricks to keep the evil eye away: Do not hold a baby shower; never set up the nursery until the baby is born; do not give the baby a name before birth. Mama had a baby boy who died shortly after birth. The baby had been given a name. When she became pregnant again, it was decided the baby would be called Alte (old one) if it was a girl or Zaide (grandpa) if it was a boy, fooling the gods into thinking the baby was an old man or woman. Hence, my Uncle Jack (z”l) was called Zaidel all his life. Back to the framed prayers. My first girl, Raina, slept peacefully with the prayers protecting her from the evil eye. When my in-laws came to visit, my mother-in-law saw the two prayers and laughed. “What are these?” she asked between giggles. “Prayers to ward off evil,” I said. “My mother sent them to me with instructions to hang them above the crib.” What narishkeit (nonsense). “The essence of each is the same,” she said, smiling. “However, blue is for a boy; the red one is for a girl. You don’t hang them both. It will confuse the angels who watch over newborn babies.” Oy, what an auspicious start for my journey into motherhood. ■
ACROSS 1. Makes like Amy Alcott 6. Battle of Tel ___ 9. Like dates 14. Rav Ashi was one 15. Where you might see Manischewitz products 16. Lane to a chuppah 17. Bernie Madoff, e.g. 18. She wrote and sang a major hit for David Guetta 19. Number 130 is often said (and sung) 20. “Summer Wind” singer 22. Crescent point (maybe seen on Rosh Chodesh) 23. Mark forbidden in Leviticus 19:28 24. Slash might put one on his axe 27. Locale for a Cardozo graduate 30. Author Levin 33. Iran-___ 37. Rosh woes 40. Miracle liquid 41. Eli’s co-star in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” 42. Elvis’ label 43. Setting for some Abrams films 45. Kaparot option 46. Notable Spider-Man foes 49. Prop for George Burns 51. ___ Somayach 52. Mountain nearly 2,000 feet higher than Hermon 53. Warner Bros. corporation 55. Part of T.G.I.F. 57. (Eric) Roth won an Oscar writing about him 60. What Jews hope their prayers do this time of year or how to properly solve 20-, 37- & 46-Across and 10- & 50-Down 66. OU part 68. Grandmotherless girl
69. Esau might have set one 70. Chip one wouldn’t make a blessing on 71. Gan game 72. Fancy (Bat Mitzvah) 73. War horse mentioned by Micah 74. Half a Hollywood icon’s squared name 75. BBYO target demographic DOWN 1. Hook for a giant bass, perhaps 2. Spring count 3. Manilow girl 4. Paul Stanley and David Lee Roth, e.g. 5. Passover decaf option 6. “___ thou eaten of the tree...” (Genesis 3:11) 7. Seder song, with Hu 8. Famous twin 9. Yutz 10. Cheesehead land 11. Nephew of Ishmael 12. Hallel need? 13. It gets high in Eilat, abbr. 21. Yesh ___ 25. Giora “Hawkeye” Epstein, e.g. 26. Dangerous chevra 27. First name in an Ohio Jewish day school 28. Locale in one of Bruckheimer’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” flicks 29. ____plasty, schnoz work 31. Like a red heifer 32. Word Anthony Goldstein would say to summon his wand 34. It can be made from challah 35. Poison used on
a show with Saul Goodman 36. Billy Joel’s first girl 38. Where Passover dishes might be stored 39. Browns dish similar to latkes 44. Spiritual specter 47. Work in the Garment District 48. Basic bet din, e.g. 50. Southeast Asia republic 54. Derech follower 56. Location for “The Goldbergs” 57. Must and Orbit 58. Del Boca Vista condo, e.g. 59. “An American Tail” characters 61. Green and 74-Across’s sister 62. Prefix with tron, Bay baddie 63. King David buying Har Habayit 64. Country with an “elected” president 65. They hang in David Silver’s league 67. “Talking” action during services
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